Three places you should spend time today, described briefly and linked. No lilies will be gilded in the making of today’s CSOTD.The Big Deal today is emerging reports on the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, which I really wanted to go to. And, seeing Mike Cope’s extensive collection of photos and Tom Racine’s video makes me […]
Randy Glasbergen’s “Better Half” is like the player who, when you look at the box score after the game, you find was one of the high-scorers even though he didn’t take any spectacular shots from beyond the three-point line. He simply makes the shots he takes, and it adds up.Today, Glasbergen hits on a point […]
Tom Tomorrow, an endangered species, on the recent debates.But, y’know, not recent enough. We want the truth and we want it right now, but, if we have to choose, we’ll take “right now.”So the consulate in Benghazi is attacked, and the first report is that a mob got out of control, stormed the place and killed […]
A bit of well-timed subtlety from Sandra Bell Lundy at Between Friends. Subtle in that you may have to look twice to get the point and I suspect a lot of readers will be scratching their heads over this one. “Subtle” is not much prized in mass media, especially when the artwork is shrunken down to […]
Doonesbury decries the lack of information available in the Information Society.There’s plenty of information, of course, but you have to go look for it, which, even for a dedicated info-scrounger, is not so easy. Even Google News is driven by what other people think is worth knowing, and so, while it’s a pretty good resource, […]
Seems odd to be returning to the topic of second-time-around romance within the same week, but today’s Close to Home brought forth such a hearty “Yes!” from me that I couldn’t rule it out on the basis of having recently discussed that sort of thing.Besides, romantic disasters never go out of fashion.That previous post was […]
Big Bird as the takeaway from Wednesday’s debate has been a predictable boon for political cartoonists. Facebook Photoshoppers were putting gags up while the debate was still in progress, and the pros weren’t far behind them.Nick Anderson riffs on one element, which is the disparity between the goal of hunting down bin Laden and the promise […]
Harry Bliss touches a nerve on the eve of my annual physical.Kind of funny: When I called to make the appointment, the woman at the doctor’s office pulled up my records and was trying to schedule me for next month. I said that I had a prescription that needed to be renewed now, however, and […]
I’ve got nothing to add to today’s “Sherman’s Lagoon” except that I really enjoy the repeated assault upon suspension of disbelief, as well as Toomey’s ability to promote ecological awareness while keeping the strip constantly silly. I’ve mentioned the Bob Newhart timing factor in this strip often enough that I won’t do it again. Whoops.Note […]
Fresh from her engagement at the fabulous Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, Hilary Price gives us a vision of Pooh that backs up the basic pun with a bit of appropriate travesty.I love Rhymes with Orange because it’s not just funny but witty, which is not the same thing. The Pooh/Poe thing works, sure, and “Eeyore” […]
Today’s comics page brings something of a coincidence, but the topic sure comes from two different angles.In “Heart of the City,” it’s established that Heart and her mother have been two girls, living all together, but they are all alone (ear worms inserted free!). There was an arc years ago in which Heart met her […]
Ideas! Why, that bloody bleating goat Temple has ideas. MacCann has ideas too. Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas. — Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManI don’t know that Terri Libenson will get a lot of laffs from the general public for today’s Pajama Diaries, which may be too much […]
Speed Bump tackles the issue of the end of the story as it is told and end of the story including the tying up of loose ends.Overthinking cartoons is part of the primary mission here, and the fact is that the urn, not the cremation, is the problem here.(Note: Everything that follows is in excruciatingly […]
This is suddenly a really good time to pick up on some continuity strips, since several that are worth following are just starting new stories: Over at DailyInk, Rip Kirby has just had a confrontation on a twisty road with this woman who we now discover is a race car driver. The strip is from […]
Tina’s Groove hits one of my pet peeves: Businesses that put up websites and then ignore them.This comes, as it happens, on a week when old folks and trivia buffs are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beverly Hillbillies, which I mention because the early episodes had the Clampetts puzzling their way through their new […]